Mormon Stories Podcast

THRIVEDAY is 11 days away!  The speaker lineup and music are epic. 

Also, we have added a reception/open bar/karaoke night on 11/13 at 7pm.  I'd love to party with you all!

Our only goals are to: 1) Inspire and give Ex-Mormons hope and healing, and 2) Help Ex-Mormons find friends and community.  

Please come if you are seeking any of this.  Would love to see you there!

Registration is here! 

https://www.thrivebeyondreligion.com/event/thrive-day-2021

John Dehlin has never been so lucky!

He’s joined today by the folks who have been dubbed “The Britvengers”, a collection of progressive and post Mormons who all have one thing in common, they’re British! 

They will be discussing what is being called “The British Rescue”. On Halloween Weekend 3 Senior Apostles are coming and addressing the UK membership. Is this a rescue?

The Britvengers are:

• Nemo the Mormon https://www.youtube.com/c/NEMOTHEMORMON
• Peter Bleakley https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNYIeulcLs85NLINDyxzHQQ
• 21st Century Saints https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLESyNtVAdYF52HVt5Cu-Ew
• Laura & Julian Heath https://www.facebook.com/groups/143828186747679
• Priesthood Dispatches https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx5yNRufseSR_JxYC8GJ2iA

Show Notes:

• 21st Century Saints Podcast
• 21st Century Saints' interview with John Dehlin
• Mormon Civil War Podcast
• Sunstone UK
• Priesthood Dispatches blog and podcast
• Nemo the Mormon Podcast
• Zelph on the Shelf
• "Remembering the Swedish Rescue" on Mormon Stories
• Mormon Stories' interview with Douglas Stilgoe
• Mormon Stories' interview with Tom Phillips about the Second Anointing
• "Leaders and Managers," Address by Hugh Nibley at BYU in 1983

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Mormon Stories is honored to welcome American historian and author Newell Bringhurt on the podcast to discuss the life of Fawn Brodie, author of “No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith”. We discuss Newell’s biography of Fawn Brodie, her life as niece of LDS prophet David O. McKay, her faith, her influences to write one of the most influential books in Mormon history, and its reception by the church.

Show notes:

• Fawn Brodie: A Biographer's Life by Newell Bringhurst
• No Man Knows My History by Fawn M. Brodie
• "Appraisal of the So-Called Brodie Book," Anonymous, Deseret News, May 11, 1946
• "A Lesson from Dandy," by David O. McKay, 1968 General Conference
• No, Ma'am, That's Not History: A Brief Review of Mrs. Brodie's Reluctant Vindication of a Prophet She Seeks to Expose by Hugh Nibley
• "Can We Manipulate the Past?" Address by Fawn Brodie at the University of Utah in 1967
• "The Manipulation of History," by Marvin S. Hill, Dialogue:A Journal of Mormon Thought, Fall 1970
• Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
• Newell Bringhurst's review of Rough Stone Rolling
• "My 'Affair' with Fawn Brodie: Motives, Pain, and Pleasure," by Newell G. Bringhurst, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Fall 2002
• Other books by Newell Bringhurst
• Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie
• Mormonism Unveiled: The Life and Confession of John D. Lee and Brigham Young by John D. Lee
• The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Juanita Brooks
• David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince
• "The Private vs. The Public David O. McKay: Profile of a Complex Personality," by Newell G. Bringhurst, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Fall 1998
• Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South by Fawn M. Brodie
• The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn M. Brodie
• Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier by Newell G. Bringhurst
• Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet by Dan Vogel
• Brigham Young: American Moses by Leonard J. Arrington
• In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd M. Compton
• Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
• Early Mormonism and the Magic Worldview by D. Michael Quinn
• Mormon Stories' interview with Richard Bushman
• The American Religion by Harold Bloom
• An Insider's View of Mormon Origins by Grant Palmer
• Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism by Newell G. Bringhurst

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Join us with Australian geneticist Simon Southerton as we break down with Australian geneticist Simon Southerton the Heartland model of Book of Mormon geography which proposes that the events described in the Book of Mormon took place, primarily, in the heartland of North America. The main proponent of this model, Rodney Meldrum, and his followers have been described as a "movement" that could transform the LDS Church.

Simon will explain how one of the main pieces of "evidence" that the FIRM enterprise promotes is built on a single questionable claim which Meldrum has been making for over 15 years even after being corrected by several non-Mormon scientists, Simon himself, FairMormon, and LDS scholars at BYU, including Ugo Perego.

Show Notes:

• "The fight over Book of Mormon Geography," by Michael DeGroote, Deseret News, May 27, 2010
• “An Outsider’s View of Mormon Archaeology with Dr. Michael Coe” on Mormon Stories
• “LIDAR, Response to John Sorenson, and the Book of Mormon with MesoAmerican Archaeologist Dr. Michael Coe” on Mormon Stories
• Dean Sessions' Universal Model
• Rod Meldrum's FIRM Foundation (Foundation for Indigenous Research and Mormonism)
• "How Heartland Began and Continues," by Rod Meldrum with input from Rian Nelson
• "Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History," by Deborah A. Bolnick, et. al., Book of Mormon Archeological Foundation, 2012
  Part 1
  Part 2
  Part 3
• Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton by Douglas W. Owsley
• Face of a Nephite: DNA Studies and the Book of Mormon by David Read
• Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church by Simon G. Southerton

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Join us today for an important discussion! In this special Mormon Stories live stream, Carah Burrell is honored to talk with excommunicated Mormon sex therapist Natasha Helfer to discuss the criticism of her found in Cwic Media’s video about her disciplinary council. Natasha and Carah plan to go point by point to address various accusations about her intentions and hopefully foster a better understanding of what constitutes healthy sexuality for people in and out of the LDS church.

Show Notes:

• GetMormonHelp.com/Symmetry Solutions
• Mormon Sex Info podcast, hosted by Natasha Helfer 
• Six Principles of Sexual Health
• Greg Matsen's YouTube video, "Natasha Helfer Disciplinary Council Explained"
• Natasha Helfer's writings on masturbation:
  "My Official Stance on Masturbation," Patheos, August 6, 2012 
  "Neither a Sin nor a Transgression," Sunstone Magazine, November 28, 2015 
• "A Parent's Guide," The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Anti-pornography campaign “Fight the New Drug”
• The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists
• The Mormon Mental Health Association (secular, but LDS culturally competent)
• The Association of Latter-day Saint Counselors and Psychotherapists (practitioners must agree to follow the Church's teachings)

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Join Margi, John, and Carah as Margi discusses the Conscious Parenting model, and how it can help with parenting “when all else fails.”

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Show notes and links:

• The Conscious Parent book
• The Awakened Family: How to Raise Empowered, Resilient, and Conscious Children book
• Out of Control book
• Gift of the Mormon Faith Crisis – Conscious Parenting After a Religious Faith Transition
• Staying Grounded Mormon Stories episode with Margi
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr
• Eckhart Tolle podcast series with Oprah

Please join us as John and Gerardo respond to a recent interview on the Mayim Bialik's Breakdown podcast where David Archuleta shared his experience being Mormon and gay.

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Show notes:

• David's interview with Mayim Bialik
• A Little Book of Ace by Clara Dehlin
• Let’s learn about asexuality and aromanticism with Clara Dehlin
• David Talks about Elder Holland’s comments
• Tabernacles of Clay
• Matt Easton MS Interview
• Centennial Commons Petition
• "On The Record" from Latter Gay Stories
• THRIVEDAY

McKay ‘Spartacus’ Johnson is our guest today for this fantastic two-part Mormon Stories interview. Carah Burrell takes the reins again as lead interviewer as we talk to McKay about battling a “Nephi complex” growing up, early exposure to pornography, and his mission to Brasil where he describes being groomed by his mission companion and sexually assaulted. It’s an intense and undercover topic and we thank McKay for coming on the podcast to share his experience being a male sexual assault survivor.

In part two, McKay tells us about what it was like to heal from his mission and deconstruct the homophobic ideas he carried with him after his assault. Eventually getting married and divorced, we discuss with McKay what happened the night he confessed to his wife he had been occasionally viewing pornography and what can be done in Mormon culture to shift the unhelpful and counterproductive labeling of men like McKay. McKay is also a talented TikToker and musician, so we are happy he could find time to take a break from playing rock god to join us on Mormon Stories and we hope you’ll support him wherever his talents take him! 

Content warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual assault.

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Show notes: 

• @Spartacus_Unchained on TikTok
• Healthier approaches to porn and masturbation
• @ExMoLex on TikTok
• @ExMormonMindy on TikTok
• @NuanceHoe on TikTok
• SuitUpSoldier.com

McKay ‘Spartacus’ Johnson is our guest today for this fantastic two-part Mormon Stories interview. Carah Burrell takes the reins again as lead interviewer as we talk to McKay about battling a “Nephi complex” growing up, early exposure to pornography, and his mission to Brasil where he describes being groomed by his mission companion and sexually assaulted. It’s an intense and undercover topic and we thank McKay for coming on the podcast to share his experience being a male sexual assault survivor.

In part two, McKay tells us about what it was like to heal from his mission and deconstruct the homophobic ideas he carried with him after his assault. Eventually getting married and divorced, we discuss with McKay what happened the night he confessed to his wife he had been occasionally viewing pornography and what can be done in Mormon culture to shift the unhelpful and counterproductive labeling of men like McKay. McKay is also a talented TikToker and musician, so we are happy he could find time to take a break from playing rock god to join us on Mormon Stories and we hope you’ll support him wherever his talents take him! 

Content warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual assault.

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Show notes: 

• @Spartacus_Unchained on TikTok
• Healthier approaches to porn and masturbation
• @ExMoLex on TikTok
• @ExMormonMindy on TikTok
• @NuanceHoe on TikTok
• SuitUpSoldier.com

Today we discuss Mormon Temples, the prosperity gospel, and the Mormon church's use of social media influencers to promote its temple work. Feel free to post your comments, experiences, and questions below!

Show Notes:

• Graph showing temple growth under Russell M. Nelson
• Racially insensitive murals inside the Mesa, Arizona, temple
• Mormon Stories' interview with Laura Schnell
• Jenny Komenda's Instagram

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